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to found the Cumberland Branch of the British Red Cross Society, and 
acted as honorary secretary from the time it was founded to 1918. 
During the war his work was most strenuous, and in recognition of his 
services he received from the King the O.B.E. 
Dr Barnes was made a Justice in 1887, a county magistrate in 1889, 
and in 1904 he was appointed chairman of the Cumberland Ward Justices. 
He was also intensely interested in antiquarian and archseological research, 
and papers by him have appeared in the British Medical Journal , the 
Lojncet , the Edinburgh Medical Journal , and the medical journals of New 
York, Philadelphia, St Louis, and Toronto. He also contributed papers on 
the historical side of medicine to the Transactions of the Cumberland 
and Westmorland Antiquarian Society. 
Dr Barnes founded and was president of the Carlisle Branch of the 
Medical Mission Auxiliary of the Church Missionary Society, and was 
deeply interested in its welfare. 
Dr Barnes was able to work, as he would have wished, to the end, 
passing away on 12th April 1921 after only a week’s illness, from heart 
failure following bronchitis. His kindness of heart, courtesy of manner, 
social disposition, and well-stored mind endeared him to all classes of 
the community. 
